All you need to know about Sanremo 2018

With 5 nights of shows and 4 different ways to vote, all with different percentage bearings, a lot goes into picking the winner for Sanremo. This is all you need to know about the 2018 competition, how the voting is going to work, and who is in the running to represent Italy in Lisbon.

For many years, the winner of Sanremo has been eligible to be chosen as the Italian representative for Eurovision, and this year is no exception. The representative for 2018 will be the winner of the ‘Big Artists’ category at the Sanremo Festival.

Voting

There is a combination of 4 different voting methods that are used throughout the Sanremo festival, and these are:

Public voting (carried out via landline, mobile, contest website or official mobile app)

Press Jury voting (accredited journalists cast their votes and they follow the competition from the Roof Hall at Teatro Ariston)

A demoscopic poll (a sample of 300 music fans are gathered, and their votes are cast via an e-voting system managed by Ipsos)

Expert Jury voting (people from the world of music, entertainment and culture)

Former Eurovision participants returning to Sanremo

In this list of 20 there are 4 acts that have competed at Eurovision before. Nina Zilli represented Italy with her song L’amore è femmina (Out of Love), she placed 9th overall in the Grand Final. Luca Barbossa represented Italy in 1988 with his song Vivo (Ti scrivo) which translates into English as (Alive, I write to you). He placed 12th out of 21 entries that year. Riccardo Fogli came 11th in 1983 with his song ‘Per Lucia’ and Enrico Ruggeri , the lead singer of Decibel, came 12th in 1993 with the song ‘Sole d’Europa’.

Scores in full

The scores from each night, and each act (in full) are as follows:

Night 1 results

Artist

Draw

Song

Votes

Place

Public(weight 40%)

Demoscopic Jury(weight 30%)

Press Jury(weight 30%)

Average

Annalisa

1

“Il mondo prima di te”

11th (3.83%)

3rd

9th

4.66%

3rd

Ron

2

“Almeno pensami”

4th (6.58%)

6th

6th

6.27%

4th

The Kolors

3

“Frida”

2nd (10.60%)

9th

10th

6.54%

8th

Max Gazzè

4

“La leggenda di Cristalda e Pizzomunno”

6th (4.61%)

5th

5th

6.26%

6th

Ornella Vanoni feat. Bungaro & Pacifico

5

“Imparare ad amarsi”

7th (4.39%)

8th

4th

6.268%

5th

Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro

6

“Non mi avete fatto niente”

1st (21.98%)

1st

2nd

16.12%

1st

Mario Biondi

7

“Rivederti”

13th (3.45%)

11th

17th

3.19%

15th

Roby Facchinetti & Riccardo Fogli

8

“Il segreto del tempo”

3rd (6.77%)

18th

19th

3.81%

11th

Lo Stato Sociale

9

“Una vita in vacanza”

8th (4.27%)

2nd

1st

9.53%

2nd

Noemi

10

“Non smettere mai di cercarmi”

14th (3.09%)

4th

16th

3.86%

10th

Decibel

11

“Fuori dal tempo”

15th (2.81%)

15th

10th

3.10%

16th

Elio e le Storie Tese

12

“Arrivedorci”

20th (1.72%)

12th

18th

2.41%

20th

Giovanni Caccamo

13

“Eterno”

10th (3.97%)

13th

12th

3.71%

12th

Red Canzian

14

“Ognuno ha il suo racconto”

12th (3.53%)

20th

13th

2.83%

17th

Luca Barbarossa

15

“Passame er sale”

5th (4.93%)

10th

15th

3.91%

9th

Diodato & Roy Paci

16

“Adesso”

17th (2.60%)

16th

3rd

5.08%

7th

Nina Zilli

17

“Senza appartenere”

19th (1.83%)

7th

19th

2.61%

18th

Renzo Rubino

18

“Custodire”

16th (2.78%)

19th

13th

2.56%

19th

Enzo Avitabile feat. Peppe Servillo

19

“Il coraggio di ogni giorno”

9th (4.16%)

17th

8th

3.67%

13th

Le Vibrazioni

20

“Così sbagliato”

18th (2.10%)

14th

7th

3.61%

14th

Night 2 results

Artist

Draw

Song

Votes

Place

Public(weight 40%)

Demoscopic Jury(weight 30%)

Press Jury(weight 30%)

Average

Le Vibrazioni

1

“Così sbagliato”

8th (7.71%)

6th

5th

8.44%

6th

Nina Zilli

2

“Senza appartenere”

7th (8.88%)

2nd

8th

8.95%

5th

Diodato & Roy Paci

3

“Adesso”

5th (9.32%)

5th

1st

13.26%

4th

Elio e le Storie Tese

4

“Arrivedorci”

10th (3.66%)

8th

10th

4.30%

10th

Ornella Vanoni feat. Bungaro & Pacifico

5

“Imparare ad amarsi”

3rd (12.35%)

4th

2nd

13.94%

2nd

Red Canzian

6

“Ognuno ha il suo racconto”

4th (9.59%)

10th

8th

6.49%

9th

Ron

7

“Almeno Pensami”

2nd (14.96%)

3rd

3rd

13.87%

3rd

Renzo Rubino

8

“Custodire”

6th (9.09%)

9th

7th

7.29%

8th

Annalisa

9

“Il mondo prima di te”

1st (17.54%)

1st

3rd

16.10%

1st

Decibel

10

“Lettera del Duca”

9th (6.90%)

7th

6th

7.36%

7th

Night 3 results

Artist

Draw

Song

Votes

Place

Public(weight 40%)

Demoscopic Jury(weight 30%)

Press Jury(weight 30%)

Average

Giovanni Caccamo

1

“Eterno”

8th (4.86%)

7th

7th

6.31%

8th

Lo Stato Sociale

2

“Una vita in vacanza”

4th (7.94%)

1st

1st

15.63%

2nd

Luca Barbarossa

3

“Passame er sale”

2nd (12.43%)

5th

6th

10.21%

4th

Enzo Avitabile feat. Peppe Servillo

4

“Il coraggio di ogni giorno”

6th (6.86%)

9th

5th

7.00%

7th

Max Gazzè

5

“La leggenda di Cristalda e Pizzomunno”

5th (7.34%)

4th

2nd

12.08%

3rd

Roby Facchinetti & Riccardo Fogli

6

“Il segreto del tempo”

7th (5.49%)

10th

10th

3.28%

10th

Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro

7

“Non mi avete fatto niente”

1st (41.18%)

2nd

3rd

25.38%

1st

Noemi

8

“Non smettere mai di cercarmi”

9th (2.98%)

3rd

8th

7.34%

6th

The Kolors

9

“Frida (Mai Mai Mai)”

3rd (8.71%)

6th

4th

9.12%

5th

Mario Biondi

10

“Rivederti”

10th (2.21%)

8th

9th

3.65%

9th

No scores were given in the penultimate night

Night 5 results (Super final)

Artist

Draw

Song

Votes

Place

Demoscopic Jury(weight 30%)

Press Jury(weight 20%)

Public(weight 50%)

Average

Annalisa

1

“Il mondo prima di te”

3rd

1st

2nd (23,44%)

26,94%

3

Lo Stato Sociale

2

“Una vita in vacanza”

1st

3rd

3rd (22,10%)

28,40%

2

Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro

3

“Non mi avete fatto niente”

2nd

2nd

1st (54,41%)

44,66%

1

Awards

There are a total of 9 awards that are awarded throughout the Sanremo Festival in the big artists category. The awards, and the artists who received them are as follows:

Award

Artist

Song

Winner

Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro

Non mi avete fatto niente

Runner up

Lo Stato Sociale

Una vita in vacanza

Third classified

Annalisa

Il mondo prima di te

Mia Martini award

Ron

Almeno pensami

Lucio Dalla Award

Lo Stato Sociale

Una vita in vacanza

Sergio Endrigo Awardfor the best interpretation

Ornella Vanoni feat. Bungaro & Pacifico

Imparare ad amarsi

Giancarlo Bigazzi Award

Max Gazzè

La leggenda di Cristalda e Pizzomunno

TIM Music Award

Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro

Non mi avete fatto niente

Lunezia Awardfor the song with best music-letterary value

Luca Barbarossa

Passame er sale

2016: Stadio gives the Eurovision ticket to Francesca Michielin

It is the winners of the ‘Big Artists category’ who receive the right to represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest. However, if the winner declines, then the organiser of The San Remo festival reserves the right to select the the Italian entry. In 2016, Stadio won the category with their song “Un giorno mi dirai”, however, they turned down the chance to represent Italy at that years Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm. In the end, that honour was given to the runner up of the category, Francesca Michielin and her song Nessun grado di separazione (No degree of separation).

Last year, Francesco Gabbani won Sanremo with his song Occidentali’s Karma (Westerner’s Karma). He won in 2017, having won the new comers section of the festival the previous year with the song “Amen”.

2018 Sanremo vote share (audience figures from RAI 1)

Live show

timeslot

(UTC+1)

Date

1st time

9PM – 12.00am

2nd time

12.00am – 1.00am

Overall audience

Viewers

% share

Viewers

% share

Viewers

% share

1st

9PM

6th February

13,766,000

51.4%

6,624,000

55.4%

11,603,000

52.1%

2nd

9PM

7th February

11,458,000

46.6%

5,870,000

52.9%

9,687,000

47.7%

3rd

9PM

8th February

12,657,000

51.1%

6,146,000

54.4%

10,825,000

51.6%

4th

9PM

9th February

12,246,000

49.1%

6,985,000

57.1%

10,108,000

51.1%

5th

9PM

10th February

13,240,000

54.0%

10,404,000

69%

12,125,000

58.3%

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